Sniffnoy comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 20 November 2010 03:57:49AM 2 points [-]

Nitpick: I don't think that is exactly what EY was pointing out. Take a look at the comments and the general response of "Huh? Who makes that mistake?" It seems EY was complaining about the tendency of AGI researchers to use "emergence" as if it were an explanation, not ordinary use of the word that doesn't pretend it is one but just, say, points out that the behavior is surprising given what it's composed of, or that your current methods aren't powerful enough to predict the consequences. He didn't seem to have realized that particular mistake was mostly localized to AGI people.

Comment author: timtyler 20 November 2010 12:50:18PM 0 points [-]

It seems more likely that when the cited people said "intelligence is an emergent phenomenon", they were misunderstood as proposing that as a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon.

Comment author: WrongBot 20 November 2010 04:05:21AM 0 points [-]

Nitpick accepted.